This book offers useful solutions for hiring talented, motivated employees. Shows employers how to sell relevant functions, choose active sourcing strategies, maintain and manage relations with promising talent and ensure a positive candidate experience.

In times of growing talent shortage, companies have to find new ways to fill their strategic positions from the outside. This book presents useful and competitive solutions for hiring talented and motivated employees. The author presents four concrete fields of action to achieve this and provides the reader with definitions of strategically relevant key and bottleneck functions. The book emphasizes the fact that employers must sell relevant functions just like they would as part of an employer branding strategy. Employers are moving towards active sourcing strategies beyond job ads and headhunting. They must maintain and manage relations with promising talent once they have been identified. Finally, employers must ensure a positive candidate experience. This book serves as a handy reference for HR managers and talent recruiters.

Presents practice-driven and feasible ideas for Human Resource Management and recruiting Provides innovative tools for Human Resource Management Offers practical guidance in recruiting hard-to-be-filled positions in the company Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Professor Armin Trost lectures and researches at the HFU Business School in Furtwangen, Germany, focusing primarily on talent management, employer branding and the future of work. He previously held a professorship at Würzburg University of Applied Sciences, and was head of Worldwide recruiting at SAP for several years. He is a long-time advisor for companies of all sizes and industries in matters relating to strategic Human Resource Management. Not only is Professor Trost known as the author of numerous articles and books, he is also a trend-setting speaker at reputable conferences. A leading HR magazine in Germany has named Armin Trost as one of the top 40 thought leaders in the field of HR for several consecutive years. He is the author of the internationally recognized book 'Talent Relationship Management: Competitive Recruiting Strategies in Times of Talent Shortage' (Heidelberg: Springer, 2014).

Inhalt
Introduction.- The Labour Market of the Future.- An Overview of Talent Relationship Management.- Defining Relevant Target Groups.- The Employee Value Proposition.- Active Sourcing Strategies.- Candidate Retention.- The Positive Candidate Experience.- Framework Conditions.- Conclusion.